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REVELATION 16

GOD’S WRATH AND THE CROSS

Series ‘The future has already begun #13 IBC Eindhoven, 3 May 2020

WRATH OF GOD

• 1. God’s wrath and his righteousness – Romans 1:17-18
• 2. God’s wrath is true and just – Revelation 16:5-7
• 3. God’s wrath reminds us of the plagues of Egypt

God’s wrath is used as an excuse to prepare for battle

• Revelation 16:12-14, 16 >>> Armageddon = Megiddo?
• Joel 3:2,12; Zechariah 12 + 14; Ezekiel 38 + 39
• The 7th bowl makes the mighty armies a laughing stock

BOWLS OF WRATH

Revelation 6:16,17 ‘…hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day

• f their wrath has come, and who can stand?’

WRATH OF THE LAMB

• 1. Suddenly Christ is speaking: ‘Behold, I come like a thief!’
• Revelation 16:15 (3:3); 1 Thessalonians 5:2 and 2 Peter 3:10
• 2. Christ speaking between 6th and 7th bowl of wrath
• ‘Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes...’
• 3. Revelation 16:17 – the 7th bowl: ‘It is done!’
• John 19:30 ‘It is finished’

THE WRATH OF GOD AND THE CROSS

• 1. Jesus has turned the wrath of God on the cross
• John 3:36; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9
• 2. Now Jesus Christ reigns until he has…

‘destroyed all dominion, authority power’ 1 Cor. 15:24-25

• 3. The judgement on the cross is central in human history
• Pre-history << the Cross >> Post-history